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      <title>What a First-Look Deal Actually Is (and What It Doesn&apos;t Buy)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[First-look deals buy an exclusive window on a producer's projects, not the projects themselves — mechanics, fee tiers, and why the trimming cycles keep coming.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alice Bay</dc:creator>
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      <title>Netflix Cleared $11 Billion in Q2 2025 — and the Money Story Is Margins Now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Netflix's Q2 2025: about $11.1 billion revenue, near-27 percent margins, subscriber reporting retired — and the ad engine doing the quiet structural work.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brands, not stars, usually cover a red carpet look, but the loans, fees, and liability behind it run mostly on informal agreements, according to legal and trade reporting on the practice.]]></description>
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      <title>How Overall Deals Work — and Why Writers Are Fighting to Save Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The WGA's antitrust lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger singles out overall deals as a market at risk — here is what those contracts actually pay for.]]></description>
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      <dc:creator>Ray Kowalski</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Packaging Fees Actually Work — and Why the WGA Killed Them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:51:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alice Bay</dc:creator>
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      <title>Record $430 Million Weekend Tests AMC&apos;s Billion-Dollar Theater Bet</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A historic industry-wide box office weekend, powered by premium-format sellouts, is the clearest evidence yet that theater chains' years of renovation spending are starting to pay off.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alice Bay</dc:creator>
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      <title>How Showrunners Actually Get Paid, and Why Weekly Beat Episodic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Guild minimums price the writing, the open market prices the producing, and the survey data shows which half of the job is growing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:51:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How the Theatrical Window Works — and Why Hollywood Just Made It Longer Again</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Universal is stretching its theatrical window from a 17-day pandemic-era minimum to roughly 45 days by 2027, joining Disney, Sony, Warner Bros. and Paramount Skydance in walking back the rush to streaming.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:51:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Talent Agencies Get Paid — and Why Packaging Fees Died in 2022</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A star's agency doesn't just take a cut of the paycheck; for decades the biggest firms also collected fees straight from studios, until the Writers Guild forced that model out.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:51:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tanya Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <title>The $23-an-Hour Median: How Actors and Directors Actually Get Paid</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Government wage data and the actors' union's own cost schedule show why so much entertainment income comes from short gigs and staggered checks, not steady paychecks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:51:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Alice Bay</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why Streaming Rivals Pool Content: Inside Joint Ventures Like SkyShowtime</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why streaming rivals pool content in joint ventures like SkyShowtime: the scale math, what parents give up, and how JVs become buyouts.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Residuals Actually Work — and Why the Checks Got Smaller</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Residuals paid per use until streaming swapped the basis to subscriber-tier tenure; the 2023 strikes repriced the difference without restoring the principle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Universal Spent $25.7 Million Selling Oppenheimer To Oscar Voters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Awards season runs on paid media, not just prestige. Here is how studios budget, spend and sometimes skip the campaign that decides who gets nominated.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Designer Exclusivity Clauses Explained: What Stars Give Up to Wear One House</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Designer exclusivity clauses lock stars out of rival houses for weeks or years. How the windows, fees and penalties of celebrity fashion contracts work.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tanya Brooks</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[How beauty sponsorships work on set and carpet: free product, festival partnerships and ambassador fees — plus the FTC disclosure line between them.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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